The editors of The Mid-Atlantic Review invite writers that reside outside of the Washington, D.C. area to submit poems for publication using this portal. There is a $3 dollar fee for submission to The Mid-Atlantic Review by non-DC-residents. 

Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis, generally within three months of submission.  

Submissions must include:

1. Name of the poet
2. Address of the poet
3. Email of the poet
4. Two to four poems
5. Bio of the poet

Thanks to support from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, submission to The Review is free for D.C. residents. All others are to submit using this form, which requires a $3 submission fee.

We invite poets from historically-disincluded demographics, including Black, Indigenous, Native American, and AAPI writers, to submit work using the free, "DC resident" form available here. If you are a non-DC resident using that form, please note the reason for accessing that submission form in your submission or it will not be considered.

Review of submissions in 2026 is led by a different editor each month. To read the bios of current editors and guest editors, check out the 2026 editor announcement on the Day Eight website here.

Mid-Atlantic Review Editors: Robert Bettmann, Gregory Luce, Anne Becker, Regie Cabico, Serena Agusto-Cox, Holly Karapetkova

Mid-Atlantic Review Assistant Editor: Micki Topham

Mid-Atlantic Review Advisory Editors: Carolivia Herron, Christopher Heuer, Jeffrey Banks

The Mid Atlantic Review is a project of the non-profit Day Eight - http://dayeight.org/. View the magazine website online: https://midatlanticreview.com.

We invite writers that live in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and beyond, to submit poems for publication in the Mid-Atlantic Review. 

There are two portals open for submissions:

• DC-area residents should submit using this form. 
• NON-DC-area residents must submit using the non-DC-area-resident submission form, here.

Submission from both portals are considered together and (generally) in date order received. Submissions are accepted ongoing with the cutoff for consideration six weeks prior to the beginning of the publication month. For example, the cutoff for submissions to be considered for April publication is February 14. 

Review of submissions is led by a different editor each month. Read the 2026 editor announcement on the Day Eight website here for editor bios and listing of editors by month.

If you were asked to submit, please note the editor name and/or submission context in the "additional information" field at the bottom of the submission form.

Submissions must include:

1. Name of the poet
2. Address of the poet
3. Email of the poet
4. Two to four poems
5. Bio of the poet

The Mid Atlantic Review is a project of the non-profit Day Eight - http://dayeight.org/. Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis, generally within three months of submission.  View the magazine website online: https://midatlanticreview.com.

Mid-Atlantic Review Editors: Gregory Luce, Anne Becker, Regie Cabico, Serena Agusto-Cox, Holly Karapetkova, Robert Bettmann

Mid-Atlantic Review Assistant Editor: Micki Topham

Mid-Atlantic Review Advisory Editors: Carolivia Herron, Christopher Heuer, Jeffrey Banks

The Mid-Atlantic Review, a publication of Washington D.C. based literary organization Day Eight, is pleased to open a call for Poems of U.S. History, to publish summer 2026 connected to the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The editors seek:

• Poems that tell stories of figures and events in U.S. history, particularly poems that share compelling stories of famous, lesser-known or unknown, and minority perspectives;
• Poems that voice individuals from U.S. history, famous, lesser-known or unknown, and minority perspectives, including distant family members or communities commonly excluded from histories;
• Poems that express the study of U.S. history, the Declaration of Independence, or the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The editors are looking for poems that illuminate a specific moment on the timeline of U.S. History, with preference for work grounded in historical reality over speculative histories.

Works will be selected by Carolivia Herron and Robert Bettmann. To read more about the Poems of U.S. History section, including editor bios, click here to read a blog post on the Day Eight website.

Up to 100 submissions will be considered. The first 50 submissions will be accepted free of charge at which point a submission fee of $5 will go into effect. 

Submissions must include:

1. Name of the poet
2. Address of the poet
3. Email of the poet
4. Two to four poems
5. Bio of the poet

About the Mid-Atlantic Review

The Mid Atlantic Review is a project of the non-profit Day Eight - http://dayeight.org/.  View the magazine website online: https://midatlanticreview.com. 2026 Mid-Atlantic Review editors include: Gregory Luce, Holly Karapetkova, Anne Becker, Regie Cabico, Serena Agusto-Cox, Teri Cross Davis, Robert Bettmann, Sean Felix, Jeffrey Banks, Christopher Heuer, Micki Topham, and Carolivia Herron.